HELL OF A COMMUTE: How an Irish teacher booked an Easyjet Belfast flight…and arrived in Gibraltar instead

AN investigation is underway to find out how an Irish teacher managed to end up in Gibraltar after booking an EasyJet flight to Belfast. Gemma

3 Jun, 2021 @ 11:15

Gibraltar·Lead

Lifeguard service and improved facilities resume in time for high season on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ORIHUELA COSTA beaches will have their lifeguard and rescue services resume this Saturday, June 5, just in time for the pending summer season. With lockdown

3 Jun, 2021 @ 10:30

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

Girl, 10. falls to death from eighth-floor of Valencia apartment block in Spain

Girlfriend on trial accused of killing son of mafia boss in cold blood in Spain’s Murcia

A WOMAN is on trial for the murder of a mafia boss’s son who was gunned down in Murcia. Cristina Elena T faces more than

3 Jun, 2021 @ 09:03

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Other News

Torremolinos Pride returns to Spain’s Costa del Sol for 2021

THIS year’s Torremolinos Pride Festival is to take place from 3 to 6 June, with Covid-19 restrictions in place. The seaside town of Torremolinos is

2 Jun, 2021 @ 19:29

Lead·Malaga

Two years of daily Covid-19 infection figure announcements ends in Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

COVID-19 cases hold steady with zero deaths and falling hospital numbers in Costa Blanca area of Spain

NEW COVID-19 cases have fallen on a week-to week basis according to figures published today(June 2) by the Valencian health authority. 183 new infections were

2 Jun, 2021 @ 19:22

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Health·Lead·Valencian Community

ON THE GREEN LIST: Who is flying to Gibraltar and why?

Earlier in May, Gibraltar became one of the first countries to go onto the UK’s green list, giving Brits a holiday location they can travel

2 Jun, 2021 @ 19:21

Gibraltar·Lead·Travel News

San Juan feast beach fun gets banished by COIVD-19 for a second year in the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

San Juan beach celebrations cancelled again by COVID-19 in the Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain

TRADITIONAL San Juan festival beach parties will be strictly prohibited in the Valencian Community later this month. Regional Health Minister, Ana Barcelo, said: “If we

2 Jun, 2021 @ 18:30

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Male teachers in Spain wear skirts to support children against homophobic slurs

MALE teachers in Spain have taken a stand against bullies by wearing skirts to class. Manuel Ortega, 37, and Borja Velaquez, 36, who teach Virgen

2 Jun, 2021 @ 17:18

Education·Other News

Majority of Spain’s self-employed workers live in Andalucia

MORE than 500,000 people in Andalucia are self employed – the highest level in the country. Andalucía has now overtaken Catalonia as the region with

2 Jun, 2021 @ 16:44

Plague of ‘hugging’ robberies continues as couple strike across the Costa Blanca and Spain

A couple who committed at least ten ‘hugging’ robberies on the Costa Blanca, as well as in the Madrid and Murcia areas, have been arrested

2 Jun, 2021 @ 16:38

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Murcia

Green list special status for low risk parts of mainland Spain unlikely says UK ambassador during Benidorm visit

THE UK ambassador to Madrid has said that it is unlikely that parts of mainland Spain will be allowed on the UK’s travel green list

2 Jun, 2021 @ 15:45

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead·Must Read·Travel News·Valencian Community

EASY, TIGER: This summer’s tiger mosquito plague could be less severe than previous years in Spain’s Valencia

Homeowners are advised to empty out any containers that have filled with stagnant water, turning pots upside down when it rains and keeping a check

2 Jun, 2021 @ 15:00

Alicante·Castellon·Environment·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

EXCLUSIVE: British expats caught up in faked residency probe on Spain’s Costa Blanca face two-year legal limbo and travel ban

EXPATS caught up in the alleged fraudulent residency scam on the Costa Blanca have been told by police that they can’t leave the country while

2 Jun, 2021 @ 14:15

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Colegio Internacional Torrequebrada Tablet

Parents outrage as 17 children catch COVID-19 after ‘mandatory’ school trip on Spain’s Costa del Sol

THE parents of children at a school in Benalmadena have lashed out after 17 of the children contracted COVID-19 while on a school trip. The

2 Jun, 2021 @ 14:00

Lead·Malaga

Belgian expat on the Costa Blanca in Spain claimed his dead mother’s state pension for over six years

A 48-year-old Belgian man has been arrested on the Costa Blanca for claiming over €90,000 from his mother’s state pension after she died in 2014.

2 Jun, 2021 @ 13:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

GIBRALTAR flies the flag for LGBTQ+ Pride Awareness Month

GIBRALTAR was made a whole lot more colourful yesterday as across the territory it hoisted rainbow flags to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Throughout the month

2 Jun, 2021 @ 13:30

Gibraltar·Lead

A new ‘contemporary’ corporate logo costing €33,000 is unveiled by a Costa Blanca council in Spain

TORREVIEJA mayor, Eduardo Dolon, has unveiled a new corporate logo for the Costa Blanca city. €33.000 of public money has been spent on producing the

2 Jun, 2021 @ 12:45

Costa Blanca·Lead·Torrevieja

Billionaire Mining Moguls Fight Fraud Cops in $99 Million Trial

Billionaire mining tycoons said the U.K.’s fraud prosecutor colluded with their own “bullying” lawyer to leak confidential information and manufacture grounds for a criminal probe

2 Jun, 2021 @ 12:02

Crime & Law

CHILD MURDER TRIAL: Couple in Spain’s Valencia face accusations of brutally killing their two young children in a ritual

THE most gruesome and emotional trial of the year is taking place this week in Valencia. Maria and Gabriel, a couple from Godella (Valencia Province),

2 Jun, 2021 @ 12:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Vision of Barcelona port terminal from architect firm RBTA

New cruise port for Barcelona despite protests over too many tourists

BARCELONA has granted permission for a new €33 million cruise port despite past protests that the city was inundated with tourists from cruise liners who

2 Jun, 2021 @ 11:15

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead·Travel News

BATHING: How clean is the sea water off Andalucia’s beaches?

THOSE heading to the beach in Andalucia this summer will be relieved to know that bathing water quality is at adequate levels, according to experts.

2 Jun, 2021 @ 10:30

Lead

King Felipe VI honours victims of terrorism in Spain at memorial in Basque city of Vitoria

KING Felipe and Queen Letizia on Tuesday visited a reproduction of a safe house used by the Basque separatist organisation to hold a kidnapped prison

2 Jun, 2021 @ 10:08

Lead·National News·Other News

Spain’s Andalucia to remain in phase 1 of de-escalation phase for two more weeks due to high COVID-19 incidence rate

ANDALUCIA will remain in phase 1 of the three-phase plan for the progressive de-escalation of COVID-19 measures for two more weeks due to the high

2 Jun, 2021 @ 09:15

Lead

‘Stop soliciting on our streets’: Why residents in Spain are right to speak out

ONE survey in 2008 found that 78% of Spanish people consider prostitution an inevitability in modern society. Nearly 15 years later, the debate for and

1 Jun, 2021 @ 22:00

Lead·Opinion

sex worker roadside Photo by Jasonmbello/flickr

Sex work and the city: Residents on Spain’s Costa del Sol rally to tackle concerns over prostitution

SEX WORKERS are continuing to ply their trade from the Abbeygate roundabout on the A7 despite the threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic, an Olive

1 Jun, 2021 @ 21:34

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Other News

Squatters evicted under new four-week ‘quickie’ process in Costa Blanca town in Spain

VILLAJOYOSA council has successfully triggered a new fast-track eviction process to clear an apartment block of squatters. The block in the northern Costa Blanca town

1 Jun, 2021 @ 18:28

Costa Blanca

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